[DRBD-user] kernel panic with rhel 5.4, drbd 8.3.2 (and 4k hard sector size on lower level device)

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Mar 2 16:16:30 CET 2010

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:03:24PM +0000, atp wrote:
> Lars,
> 
> The patch to 8.3.7 worked like a charm.

No, it just appears as if it did...

It will generate spurious io errors
the next time you switch to secondary,
causing drbd do detach ;-)

we are working on that, though.

> [root at drvms03 ~]# drbdadm attach vm1
> [ 3069.155936] block drbd0: Meta data's bdev logical_block_size = 4096 !
> = 512
> [ 3069.238533] block drbd0: Workaround engaged (has performance impact).
> [ 3069.317985] block drbd0: No usable activity log found.
> 
> In case anyone else is searching for this solution, the storage array
> was a thecus 8800 pro with 4kb iscsi block size set causing the
> following kernel panic
>  
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> RIP: 
>  [<ffffffff8002de3c>] blk_recount_segments+0x74/0x36f
> 
>  Thanks again.
>   Andy
> 
> Andrew Phillips
> Head of Systems
> 
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